Close Day — End-of-Day Processing

Review today's daily note, extract what matters, file it properly, and set up tomorrow. This is a 5-minute ritual, not a lengthy report.

Obsidian Access

Use Obsidian CLI commands directly via Bash. If a CLI command fails, tell the user "Obsidian CLI isn't working — update Obsidian with CLI enabled."

Step 1: Read Today's Daily Note

obsidian daily:read

Parse everything captured: free-form writing, meeting notes, ideas, commitments, tasks mentioned, people referenced.

Step 2: Vault Connection Discovery

After reading today's note, run these queries:

# What themes are most active right now?
obsidian search:context query="<theme 1 from today>" limit=10
obsidian search:context query="<theme 2 from today>" limit=10
obsidian search:context query="<theme 3 from today>" limit=10

# Trace connections to today's note
obsidian backlinks file="<today's note>"

Surface findings as: "Today you wrote about X. This connects to [[note]] from [date] where you were thinking about Y. Worth revisiting?"

Flag recurring themes: "This is the third time [topic] has come up in the past two weeks."

Step 3: Extract & Categorize

Action Items

Things promised to others
Things to follow up on
Deadlines mentioned

Ideas & Insights

Observations about work patterns
Ideas for projects, content, or experiments
Realizations or shifts in perspective

People & Commitments

Follow-ups owed
Meetings to schedule
Messages to send

Questions Raised

Things to investigate
Decisions pending
Uncertainties to resolve

Open Tasks Check

obsidian tasks todo daily

Cross-reference extracted action items against existing tasks — flag any that are missing or incomplete.

Step 4: Suggest Filing Locations

For each extracted item, recommend where it should live in PARA:

Item	Type	Suggested Location	Action
...	Insight	`3 - Resources/`	Create or append to note
...	Task	Daily note tasks section	Add checkbox
...	Idea	`0 - Inbox/` or existing note	Add to running log

Step 5: Suggest Backlinks

# Check existing outgoing links before suggesting new ones
obsidian links file="<today's note>"

Identify terms in today's note that should link to existing notes (skip links that already exist):

People mentioned -> link to their note if exists
Projects mentioned -> link to project notes in 1 - Projects/
Concepts mentioned -> link to relevant notes in 3 - Resources/

Present as: "Consider adding these backlinks: [[Person]], [[Project]], [[Concept]]"

Step 6: Carry Forward

What to carry into tomorrow

Based on today's note:

Unfinished priorities
Commitments due soon
Momentum to maintain

Write carry-forward items to today's note:

obsidian daily:append content="## Carry Forward\n- [item 1]\n- [item 2]"

Quick Wrap Answers

If the Quick Wrap section wasn't filled in today's daily note, draft answers:

Did I explore anything new today?
What did I actually move forward?
What bottleneck became obvious?
One thing to carry into tomorrow?

Output Format

Today's Extraction

[Categorized list of items pulled from the note]

Vault Connections

[Recurring themes, connections to older notes]

Filing Suggestions

[Table of where things should go]

Backlinks to Add

[List of suggested links]

Carry Forward

[What matters for tomorrow]

Quick Wrap (if not completed)

[Draft answers to reflection questions]

Keep output concise. Focus on filing and surfacing what matters, not summarizing the day.

/close-day